Hi all,
--- Nov. 22, 2017 --- The candidacy statement: "If I'm elected as a member of BoD, firstly I'll do my best to be the bridge between the community and Asian countries, and then I'll also focus on communicating with people and marketing ODF and LibreOffice to governments of different countries. Besides, I hope to make the products more friendly to Asian C/J/K people in the aspect of UI/UX." --- Oct. 22, 2019 --- The above paragraph was my candidacy statement when I first ran for BoD position. Thanks to the support from the community, I was very honoured to be elected that time. After joining the board, I surprisingly realized that there are so many works and tasks to run a foundation like TDF. I also realized how great the staffs behind TDF are. Without these people working so hard the LibreOffice community and TDF would not be such a great community. They also inspired me to keep going on the way to promote LibreOffice and ODF in Taiwan and other Asian countries. During these two years I've invited many great friends from Japan, Korean, Indonesia and Taiwan to join TDF as members. I held the first certification interview in Taipei, helped and attended LibreOffice Indonesia in Surabaya, LibreOffice Asia Conference and the second certification interview in Tokyo. I have kept promoting ODF and LibreOffice (and its derivatives) in Taiwan, where the KPI of our central government agencies in 2020 is to deliver 100% ODF/PDF files in digital document exchanging. Thanks to support and help from all the community friends. I'm proud to say I have delivered my commitment in my first term of BoD. Nevertheless during these two years I also see some problems and constraints of LibreOffice community and TDF. Some from the law, and some from the reality which we need to overcome. I'm not going to say in too much detail; rather just mention one thing here: IMHO we need more new blood getting involved into this beloved community. Therefore I started working on some programs, both in Asian community and TDF, to try attracting more people, especially young students to join us. Now I decide to run for another term of BoD. If I am elected again as a BoD member, I'll put more focus on 1) co-work with community friends from different countries -- not only Asian -- to try attracting more people to get involved in; 2) to further promote Open Document Format, which I think it the core spirit of LibreOffice, in more countries and areas; 3) to make the LibreOffice ecosystem more complete, by enhancing and completing the LibreOffice certification system. IMHO the above three things are highly related, even actually the same thing. I believe that's what we should do, and I'll keep doing it. --- My Candidacy --- Full name: Franklin Weng (Weng, Chia-Chi on my passport) E-mail address: frank...@goodhorse.idv.tw, frank...@libreoffice.org Affiliation: Software Liberty Association Taiwan The candidacy statement: "If I'm elected as a member of BoD, I'll keep the work to connect Asian communities together as in my first term, and furthermore I'll co-work with community friends to try attracting more new blood getting involved in this community. I'll also keep promoting ODF, which IMO is vital to enhance and complete the LibreOffice ecosystem." Regards, Franklin
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